Keep the Promise Coalition (KTP) is a Connecticut Coalition of advocates (people living with mental illness, family members, mental health professionals and interested community members) dedicated to ensuring that a comprehensive, community mental health system is created and sustained across the lifespan (children, adolescents, emerging adults, adults, older adults and families in Connecticut).

Keep the Promise Coalition was formed in 1999 by people living with mental illness, family members, providers and other advocates in response to the “broken promise” to invest in community mental health services and supports in Connecticut.

The state’s promise to build a comprehensive, community mental health system has not been kept forcing many people with mental illness into expensive settings such as emergency rooms, jails/prisons, homelessness, and institutional care.

KTP’s Mental Health Resource Binder 2014, 2016 and 2018 coming soon

On December 6, 2016, Keep the Promise (KTP) Coalition, Connecticut’s largest group of key stakeholders advocating for smart policy reforms and systems change to benefit people impacted by mental health conditions, and the Office of the Healthcare Advocate (OHA) once again held a two-hour information session on mental health issues for newly elected and re-elected legislators and their staff. The first successful Mental Health forum for newly elected legislators was held on December 10, 2014.

This information session presented legislators with the unique opportunity to gain valuable up-to-date knowledge on important mental health issues facing the state as they prepare for the upcoming 2017 legislative session. All current Connecticut legislators and their staff, and media were invited to attend this session.